Daugherty v. Reagan, 71-1082.
| Decision Date | 17 August 1971 |
| Docket Number | No. 71-1082.,71-1082. |
| Citation | Daugherty v. Reagan, 446 F.2d 75 (9th Cir. 1971) |
| Parties | John Edward DAUGHERTY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Ronald REAGAN, Governor, et al., Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
John Edward Daugherty, in pro. per.
Evelle J. Younger, Cal. Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
Before CHAMBERS, CARTER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.
Daugherty is a prisoner at California's Folsom state penitentiary. Some regulation at the place requires him to get his hair cut. This he doesn't like. So he filed a civil rights complaint against his warden, the attorney general, Governor Reagan and sundry other officials of the state. The district court dismissed. We affirm.
While little vestige remains of the old concept that a convict is civilly dead, we have not reached the point where we second guess the state authorities on the length of prisoners' hair.
We do not reach the question of what his...
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3 cases
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Wright v. Raines
...we wrote: It is clear that the State's regulation of the hair length of a prison inmate is not per se unconstitutional. Daugherty v. Reagan, 446 F.2d 75 (9th Cir. 1971); Rinehart v. Brewer, 360 F.Supp. 105 (S.D. Iowa 1973), aff'd 491 F.2d 705 (8th Cir. 1974); Ralls v. Wolfe, 448 F.2d 778 (8......
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Wilson v. State
...similar, non-religious claims have reached the same conclusion. See, e.g., Ralls v. Wolfe, 448 F.2d 778 (8th Cir.1971); Daugherty v. Reagan, 446 F.2d 75 (9th Cir.1971); Winsby v. Walsh, 321 F.Supp. 523 (C.D.Cal.1971); Blake v. Pryse, 315 F.Supp. 625 (D.Minn.1970), aff'd, 444 F.2d 218 (8th C......
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Goulden v. Oliver
...personal lifestyle claims. Hill v. Estelle, 537 F.2d 214 (CA5 1976); Rinehart v. Brewer, 491 F.2d 705 (CA8 1974); Daugherty v. Reagan, 446 F.2d 75 (CA9 1971). None of these, however, dealt with religious rights under the Free Exercise Clause. Hill did discuss 2 Respondents, citing two suits......